Window-shade pull.



' M. B. FRANKLIN.

WINDOW SHADE PULL.

APPLICATION FILED APR-23. 1915.

Patented Dec. 28, 1915.

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MASON B. FRANKLIN, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

WIN DOVV-SHADE PULL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 28, 11915.

Application filed. April 23, 1915. Serial No. 23,530.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAsoN B. FRANKLIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of RhodeIsland, have invented a new and useful Window-Shade Pull, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The purpose of my invention is to provide a practical and eflicient pullfor window shades and the like, which can be easily and readily attachedto any window shade, and detached therefrom without injury to either theshade or the curtain stick; and which furthermore is adapted to receiveany desired ornamentation.

To these ends my invention consists in the new and useful construction,combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is anelevation showing my invention operatively attached to a curtain shadeand stick, shown partly broken away. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of thesame, with the curtain stick in section. Fig. 3 is a longitudinalcentral section of Fig 1. Fig. i is an elevation of one of the grippingjaws of my invention.

Similar reference letters and numerals refer to like parts throughoutthe drawings.

A represents the curtain or shade, and B the curtain stick.

1 is a practically U-shaped body formed of, preferably, fiat metal, withits opposite limhs ornamentally turned inward toward each other andspaced a distance apart, as shown, and also with a flat base perforatedto permit the passage therethrough of a screw shank, as hereinafterdescribed. Near the upper end of each of said limbs 1 on the inner faceof each, I loosely mount, for tilting and rocking movements a clampingdisk or jaw 2, preferably concavo-convex, and preferably furrowed,file-like, on their inner faces, and each provided with a perforateddownwardly extending integral lip 2 (Figs. 2, 3, 4). Said disks areoppositely disposed and their perforated lips 2 are engaged by the loopof a screw-eye 3, the threaded shank 8 of which operates freely throughthe perforated base 1 of the body 1, and is operated by an internallythreaded sleeve or nut 4 carrying an operating ring 4- and arranged andadapted to be screwed up along said shank against the Hat base 1 of thebody 1 to thereby draw said screweye downward and cause said disks totilt inward toward each other and immovably clamp the curtain and itsstick between them, as shown in Fig. 1. Reversing the sleeve 4 relievesthe disks from tension and allows them to separate and release thecurtain and its stick. The limbs 1 are sufliciently resilient to enablethem to be drawn inward toward each other as the tension of thescrew-eye 3 is exerted on the disks, and to spring backward away fromeach other as such tension is relaxed. The common extension cord, as 5,and the ball or tassel 6 may be attached to the ring 4 in the usualmanner. (Fig. 1.)

The body and the inwardly turned sides of the limbs thereof may be ofany ornamental configuration, and they furthermore aiford ampleopportunity for any desired ornamentation and decoration.

My invention further has the decided ad vantage of obviating theobjectionable necessity of puncturing the curtain and its stick for theattachment of the curtain pull, as is the common practice.

My invention can be attached to and removed from any curtain withoutinjuring or defacing either the curtain or its stick.

I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A window shade pull comprising a U-shaped body provided with aperforated base and opposite spring limbs perpendicular to said base.clamping disks each provided with a perforated downward. extendingintegral lip and loosely mounted opposite each other on the inner facesof said spring limbs for tilting movements, a screw eye engaging saidlips and provided with a threaded shank operating freely through saidperforated base, and an annular threaded sleeve operatively engaging thethreaded shank of said screw-eye.

2. In a window shade pull, the combination and arrangement of a bodyhaving a perforated base and oppositely disposed limbs perpendicular tosaid base, concavoforated base, and an internally threaded nut convexclamping disks tlltlngly mounted on 1n operatlve engagement \vlth saidshank.

the inner faces of said limbs, and each pro- 1 T L T Y T vided With apendant perforated lip, a MASOA FRAUD IXLIL' screw-eye having a loop inengagement with Vitnesses:

said perforated lips, and also a threaded FRED A. SWEET,

shank operating freely through said per- PARKER L. MONROE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

